Historian, Special Advisor Asia & America @i_montaigne , non-resident Senior Associate (until February 2025) @CarnegieEndow. Prone to irony.
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Four scenarios for China to 2035. In contrast with the recent past, they depend as much on the responses by others to China's policies as on its own course, incfreasingly rigid. institutmontaigne.org/en/pub…
Mbappé did not even cite Mao but said that the depiction of himself reminded him of "some guy, a Chinese dictator ". China is a "people's democratic dictatorship " and it's hard to deny that Mao, ahem, somewhat personalised the concept. Ask his colleagues of the time...
Is anyone going to try to report on—or even think about—whether and how many people in #China might agree with Mbappe’s characterization of Mao?
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Quel chemin pour les Etats-Unis après les "midterms" du 3 novembre? la domination des idées conservatrices, la difficulté du "Trump sans Trump" et le problème d'unité du camp démocrate institutmontaigne.org/expres…
Heureusement il reste à nos footballeurs, acteurs(trices) toute liberté de critiquer sans frais la dictature française...
Après ses propos polémiques, Kylian Mbappé, «sincèrement désolé», présente ses «excuses» à la Chine
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Some people would say that yes, China's Communist Party has dealt with its past and it's even possible to criticise Mao Zedong nowadays!
But in reality you can't even refer to Mao as a dictator – which is just an objective fact – without consequences. france24.com/en/sport/202610…
Sorry @gideonrachman @KuperSimon ´s brilliant essay has mistakes and one bias. Bousquet was NOT an SS but a high civil servant (leaning Socialist!) who became Vichy police chief, earnestly arrested Jews, and would stay one of Mitterrand's best friends long after WW2. 1/4
Kuper has not taken notice of the sea of Palestinian flags in the demos, the continuity between ultra left, Mélenchon's antisemitic tropes, the looter gangs, and finally the opportunity thieves that crop up in every civil breakdown 3/4
Pas moins que le rédacchef de @lemondefr pour faire de l'humour sur le dos (si on peut dire) de la statue de la République. Le vandalisme redonnerait sens à cette célèbre statue. Stupéfiant... lemonde.fr/idees/article/202…
Deux fois en une journée. Il a aussi dit: "les risques de l’élection présidentielle, on peut les lui raconter à l’avance : c’est pas les groupuscules de l’ultragauche, c’est monsieur [Benjamin] Netanyahu qui pèse sur les élections à Marseille, à Toulouse, à Roubaix et à Paris".
« Digne des pires torchons antisémites des années 30 » : les accusations de Mélenchon après les réquisitions contre Rima Hassan ne passent pas l.leparisien.fr/kK7E
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1/ Important lesson for the EU: China is ripping 🇪🇺&🇺🇸 technology out of its existing wind farms, and the reason is security.
We went through 1,686 🇨🇳 procurement documents and found evidence of a massive rip-and-replace campaign, targeting foreign controllers and software🧵
Oui mais pas plus que le refus des actifs - de longue date - d'élever l'âge de la retraite à un niveau proche du niveau européen, la non-réforme de bien des régimes spéciaux, d'invraisemblables bonifications et le travail au noir ds certains métiers 🧵
Part of this debate has been dampened in advance by the new Jacques Delors paper (published Oct 2) that tries to square the circle: contain China's tsunami while remaining within the WTO framework. Let(s not kid ourselves. 1/2
IIt's obvious that the Macron/Merz proposal is a start. But it needs to be fleshed out instead of being watered down. The "Lamy paper" probably stems from political fatalism - the EU would not sustain an escalatory trade war? 6